An Indigenous Writer Discovers New and Old Ways to Connect With the Land and With Each Other

Joshua Whitehead can’t be held by genre. Following on the success of his Lambda Literary Award winning novel Jonny Appleseed and poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer, Making Love with the Land is Whitehead’s first full-length work of creative nonfiction. But to describe this book as merely an essay collection is limiting for the depth of emotion […] The post An Indigenous Writer Discovers New and Old Ways to Connect With the Land and With Each Other appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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